CocoThumbX 2.3 review

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CocoThumbX is an freeware thumbnail creator for Mac OS X.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 1023K
Developer: Sven Janssen
Price: $0.00
Updated: 24 Aug 2006
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CocoThumbX is an freeware thumbnail creator for Mac OS X.

It is capable of Creating and removing thumbnails from the common image file formats as BMP, TIFF, TARGA, GIF (animated), PNG, JPG, PICT, PDF, EPS, ICNS, JP2, SGI ...

CocoThumbX creates a thumbnail from your image and add the thumbnail as icon to your image file.

CocoThumbX supports nice shadows like iPhoto or Photoshop.

Here are some key features of "CocoThumbX":
Drop Shadow
Use Anti-Aliasing
Draw thin border in your desired color and width
low cpu and ram usage
drop-able application icon
( simple drop files and folder onto the CocoThumbX application icon )
quits after creating icons if it was closed before
Multithreaded
able to stay always on top.

What's New:
Universal Binary (Intel/Mac)
Finally fixed crash with QuickTime 7.0.4+ running CocoThumbX with multiple threads
Register a Mac OS X Service to create and remove custom icon from single files in the Finder and/or create and remove icon for a selected folder including all images and subfolders. Take a look at the Service Menu from Finder after selecting a file.
Or press Command+Shift+S to add an Icon, Command+Shift+R to remove an icon.
automatically rotate images by there specified EXIF orientation
Added a Monitoring Tool to watch folders (including subfolders ) on your harddisk
Open the preferences and select "Monitoring".
Enable the monitoring tool by activate the checkbox and add the folders ( Drag&Drop ) to the list below. Enable the checkbox behind the folder to include subfolders.
CocoThumbX will add/remove a login item for your current user and start/stop the CocoThumbXHelper tool. CocoThumbX will ask you for your Admin password if you activate the first time the monitoring tool.
The monitoring tool will only run on Mac OS X 10.4+and automatically add a custom icon to new or modified files. (i.e your movie or picture folders).

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Quicktime 7 or later.

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